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How might things have been different

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Oodiks · 04/02/2025 21:23

Several posters on here refer to Israel as a colonizing state, what different decisions could have been made back in the 30s and 40s, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, to create stability in the Middle East?
I posted a different version of this question that got deleted without comment, I'm hoping this is an acceptable question.

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mouthpipette · 04/02/2025 23:47

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Oodiks · 04/02/2025 23:38

SpiritAdder · 04/02/2025 23:21

I’m not a local from the region that was the Palestine Mandate of the 1930s/40s, so I have no say in the matter.

Your question is asking what should the people in the 1930s/40s have done then.

I’m not interested in writing an alternate fictional history of what might have been.

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Thanks for sharing

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SpiritAdder · 04/02/2025 23:21

Oodiks · 04/02/2025 22:29

How do you think the lines might have been different? Would Israel have any place in your new map? How about Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine?

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I’m not a local from the region that was the Palestine Mandate of the 1930s/40s, so I have no say in the matter.

Your question is asking what should the people in the 1930s/40s have done then.

I’m not interested in writing an alternate fictional history of what might have been.

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Oodiks · 04/02/2025 22:29

SpiritAdder · 04/02/2025 21:59

I agree, involving the locals in the negotiations would have been a plus instead of the U.K. and USA drawing lines on a map in the bowels of the UN in NYC.

I don’t think the local Muslims & Christians agreed to the British representing them, or that the local Jews agreed to the American Zionists representing them.

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How do you think the lines might have been different? Would Israel have any place in your new map? How about Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine?

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SpiritAdder · 04/02/2025 21:59

TheWayTheLightFalls · 04/02/2025 21:27

Opening bid: The Balfour Declaration ought to have been negotiated or decided differently.

I agree, involving the locals in the negotiations would have been a plus instead of the U.K. and USA drawing lines on a map in the bowels of the UN in NYC.

I don’t think the local Muslims & Christians agreed to the British representing them, or that the local Jews agreed to the American Zionists representing them.

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Oodiks · 04/02/2025 21:31

TheWayTheLightFalls · 04/02/2025 21:27

Opening bid: The Balfour Declaration ought to have been negotiated or decided differently.

Could you expand on that answer? How might a different declaration have helped and what would have been different to make it work?

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TheWayTheLightFalls · 04/02/2025 21:27

Opening bid: The Balfour Declaration ought to have been negotiated or decided differently.